1 Prisoners ain't ever without rats.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 2 Why, Mars Tom, I doan want no rats.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 3 A jews-harp's plenty good enough for a rat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark TwainContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXVIII. 4 I never see a likelier lot of rats than what that first haul was.
5 I could show her now that I warn't to blame on account of the rats.
6 I got the thing, and the first rat that showed his nose I let drive, and if he'd a stayed where he was he'd a been a tolerable sick rat.
7 And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot.
8 Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place, and so forth and so on, and then I got easy again.
9 So we was all right now, as to the shirt and the sheet and the spoon and the candles, by the help of the calf and the rats and the mixed-up counting; and as to the candlestick, it warn't no consequence, it would blow over by and by.
10 The shirt was sent in early, in a pie, and every time a rat bit Jim he would get up and write a little in his journal whilst the ink was fresh; the pens was made, the inscriptions and so on was all carved on the grindstone; the bed-leg was sawed in two, and we had et up the sawdust, and it give us a most amazing stomach-ache.